title: [Variants of remodeling of left ventricular myocardium in patients with arterial hypertension and disturbances of carbohydrate metabolism].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  to study special characteristics of left ventricular (LV) myocardial remodeling in patients with arterial hypertension (AH) and disturbances of carbohydrate metabolism.
  
  
  METHODS
  We examined 241 patients with 1-2 degree AH and comparable age and sex: 100 patients had type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) (group 1), 41 had impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) (group 2), 100 patient had normal glucose tolerance (group 3). Examination included anthropometric and laboratory studies, echocardiography.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Concentric LV hypertrophy was found in 34, 14.6 and 6% of patients in groups 1, 2, and 3, respectively. There were no significant differences between groups by other variants of myocardial remodeling. Disturbances of LV diastolic function were more frequent in groups 1 (89%) and 2 (82.9%) compared with group 3 (57%).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Concentric LV hypertrophy was more frequent in patients with AH and type 2 DM.
authors.affiliation: Kirov State Medical Academy, ul. K. Marksa 112, 610020 Kirov, Russia.
authors.forename: I E
authors.initials: IE
authors.lastname: Sapozhnikova
authors.forename: E I
authors.initials: EI
authors.lastname: Tarlovskaia
authors.forename: A K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Tarlovskiĭ
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000886:Anthropometry / Q000379:methods; D050260:Carbohydrate Metabolism; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000150:complications / Q000378:metabolism / Q000503:physiopathology; D004452:Echocardiography / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D018149:Glucose Intolerance / Q000378:metabolism; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000378:metabolism / Q000503:physiopathology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D018487:Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000378:metabolism; D020257:Ventricular Remodeling